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The Vice President and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has reiterated his intentions to incentivise churches and faith-based groups for the massive work they do to support the government if he is voted as president.

Speaking in Sefwi Wiawso during a campaign engagement with community stakeholders, including the Clergy and Imams, Dr. Bawumia said in spite of the enormous contributions religious groups make to the development of the country, the state does not offer them any incentive to support them, just as foreign development partners get.

This, Dr. Bawumia said, will end under his government, as he will give churches and faith-based groups incentives, including waivers on special equipment and machinery for special development projects.

"I want to collaborate with the Churches and Islamic institutions. If you look at the volume of development work we do in this country, they contribute a lot. They build schools and hospitals but government does not give them incentives," Dr. Bawumia told the Clergy and the Imams.

"The churches use their own money to do all these without incentives from the government," he stressed, as he continued his case for more support for religious groups by making comparisons with the support foreign partners get.

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